The Smurfs 3 is a proposed third installment in the live-action/CGI animated Smurfs franchise. The announcement was made about two weeks after The Smurfs 2 was released in theaters. It was originally set for a release in 2015, but was cancelled.
Plot[]
According to Hank Azaria, the actor of Gargamel, it would have been an origin story of how the Smurfs and Gargamel met.
Why It Was Cancelled[]
- Jonathan Winters, the voice actor of Papa Smurf died of natural causes on April 11, 2013 before the film was made.
- The Sony hack affected the production of the film.
- The second film didn't do very well worldwide at the box office, as despite being a massive success in the United States, it bombed everywhere else and failed to match the success of the first film, which was Sony Pictures Animation's most successful film until Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse overtook it's place and grossed more than it 12 years later.
Results[]
- The Smurfs 3 was permanently cancelled.
- The Smurfs CGI/Live Action films are now a duology.
- The Smurfs series was rebooted in 2017 with a CGI film titled Smurfs: The Lost Village and a Smurf Series based on the CGI Film was released in 2021 on Nickelodeon.
- Anton Yelchin, the original voice actor for Clumsy Smurf, died at 27 by getting physically crushed by his own car, thus making it very unlikely a third live-action Smurfs movie will ever be released.
Trivia[]
- It was going to be about time traveling back to possibly 1878.